{"id":746,"date":"2009-02-11T23:40:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T06:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:49:40","slug":"thing-a-day-11-fixing-up-a-dead-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/thing-a-day-11-fixing-up-a-dead-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Up a Dead Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2003, a friend and I had this great idea for a series of Web-based collections of art and writing. We laid a lot of groundwork and then got pulled in 15 different directions, as did a few helpers, and nothing came of it. Except we found cover art for each issue.<\/p>\n

I’ve always felt bad about the way those pages looked as the years went on – a project that clearly went nowhere but described as if it were, in fact, still yesterday.<\/p>\n

So today I tore down those old pages and replaced them with a simple container for the cover art, with links to each (available) artist (one is MIA). The first piece I acquired for the project was this wonderful illustration of Medusa, by Hope Larson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I haven’t fixed the text alignment further down the page, but you know what? It’s almost midnight, and I’m tired, so this is good enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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